While Scherick wasn't interested in " For Men Only ," he recognized the talent Arledge had.

Palomar Pictures International, the production company created by Scherick after leaving ABC, produced several of the Movies of the Week.

One of them was a former account executive at the ad agency Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, Edgar J. Scherick, who as far as Hernon knew, was doing something at ABC.

Before ABC Sports even became a formal division of the network, Scherick and ABC programming chief Tom Moore pulled off many programming deals involving the most popular American sporting events.

Several months before ABC began broadcasting NCAA college football games, Arledge sent Scherick a remarkable memo, filled with youthful exuberance, and television production concepts which sports broadcasts have adhered to since.

While he was shaking hands, Scherick said, if the mood seemed right, might he cut a deal to broadcast AAU events on ABC?

Arledge did not gain a formal title as president of ABC Sports until 1968, even though Scherick left his position to assume a position of vice president for programming at ABC in 1964.

ABC also needed paid programming or " anything for bills " as Scherick put it.

* Real-life film and television producers Edgar Scherick and Frederick de Cordova have cameo roles as a network president and producer of the Langford show, respectively.

In, ABC-TV executive Edgar J. Scherick ( who would later go on to create Wide World of Sports ) broached a Saturday Game of the Week-TV sport's first network series.

Wide World of Sports debuted April 29, 1961 and was the creation of Edgar J. Scherick through his company, Sports Programs, Inc. After selling his company to the American Broadcasting Company, Scherick hired a young Roone Arledge to produce the show.

Edgar J. Scherick was Vice President of Network Programming and responsible for much of the lineup during this era.

So, he signed on with Scherick as an assistant producer.

Despite the production values he brought to NCAA college football, Scherick wanted low-budget ( as in inexpensive broadcasting rights ) sports programming that could attract and retain an audience.

While Americans were not exactly fans of track and field events, Scherick figured Americans understood games.

So in January 1961, Scherick called Arledge into his office, and asked him to attend the annual AAU board of governors meeting.

It seemed a tall assignment, but as Scherick said years later, " Roone was a gentile and I was not.

In April 1953, Edgar Scherick set out to sell teams rights but instead, only got the Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians, and Chicago White Sox to sign on.

Tom Brannon had caught up with the outfit shortly after the Maguires joined it, which had been at midday.

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Apparently no serious disorders resulted from the celebration, and within a few days, Morgan joined the force of Lafayette who now had command of some 2,000 men at Barren Hill, not far above Philadelphia on the Schuylkill.

He found them near the carcass of a zebra that had been killed the night before, and he circled once, nose to the ground, hair shooting up along his back, as it did when he was after lion or bear, and then he lifted his head and bayed, and the pack joined in, all heads high, and Jones knew it was a hot trail.

Mrs. Peck, later joined by the commission's vice-chairman, Mrs. Lee Patterson, took Harvey to task for comments he had made to the North Portland Rotary Club Tuesday.

On April 28 he moved to Los Angeles where he had family and remained there until May when, suspected by local Union authorities, he evaded arrest and joined the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles as a private, leaving Warner's Ranch May 27.

Among his companions he had made enemies and he was destined to take no share in the crusade he had joined.

The two had joined forces as Bamford & Martin the previous year to sell cars made by Singer from premises in Callow Street, London where they also serviced GWK and Calthorpe vehicles.

He first joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 1840 then had in the interim joined a Masonic Lodge and become extremely active in the affairs of the organization, being elected Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite's Southern Jurisdiction in 1859.

His successor, Norio Ohga, had joined the company after sending Morita a letter denouncing the poor quality of the company's tape recorders.

The Haworth Art Gallery in Accrington contains an outstanding collection of Tiffany glassware presented to the town by Joseph Briggs, an Accrington man who had joined Tiffany ’ s in the late 19th century and eventually became art director and assistant manager.

The clans of the chiefs Zaman had executed joined forces with the rebels, and they took Kandahar without bloodshed.

By the fall, 4, 000 people from around the country had joined his campaign.

By the following year their ranks had grown to include German painter, sculptor and designer Oskar Schlemmer who headed the theater workshop, and Swiss painter Paul Klee, joined in 1922 by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky.

The deal with the NA punished those other indies who had not joined the NA and submitted to the will of the ' majors.

By the 13 June, the Imperial Field Commander, Prince Louis of Baden, had joined them in Großheppach.

The English and German troops who had held Schwenningen through the night joined the march, making a ninth column on the left of the army.

The young emperor was raised by the regent, Bayram Khān, an Iranian statesman whose father and grandfather had joined Babur's service.

Hume reinforced his crew with musket-armed soldiers and joined up with HMS Seaford to track the two ships, to no avail, though they discerned that the two ships had sunk a French vessel off St Christopher Island, and reported also that they had last been seen " gone down the North side of Hispaniola ".

During the delay caused by this detour, two other British ships joined the battle: Theseus, which had been disguised as a first-rate ship, followed Foley's track across Guerrier < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s bow.

In 1976, candidates supported by BJU faculty and alumni captured the local Republican party with unfortunate short-term political consequences, but by 1980 the religious right and the " country club " Republicans had joined forces.

Dead fledgling birds, their squashed-looking nakedness and the odor of decay that clung to the hand when they had been buried in our graveyard in front of the purple flags.

However, he had a strong interest in the fledgling motion picture industry and when Essanay Studios offered him the opportunity to become a scriptwriter, he took the job.

By June 1945, the RCA had pushed the FCC hard on the allocation of electromagnetic frequencies for the fledgling television industry.

Stephney accepted, and his first assignment was to help fledgling producer Rick Rubin sign Chuck D, whose song " Public Enemy Number One " Rubin had heard from Andre " Doctor Dré " Brown.

The fact that a high contra official had executed the archbishop of El Salvador did not diminish the White House ’ s zeal for its fledgling ‘ democratic resistance ’.”

He had already been playing with them again at annual reunions at the fledgling Cropredy Festival.

Other musicians, and at least one comedian, who have sung Numan's praises in recent years include Beck, Grant Nicholas, Tricky, Damon Albarn & Matt Sharp, Jarvis Cocker, Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie, Noel Fielding and Afrika Bambaataa, who spoke of the influence Numan's music had on the fledgling American DJ scene: " In the late 70s and early 80s Gary had the rhythms that DJs wanted to get hold of and people waited for his records on the dance floor.

Western creditors lost heavily, and a large part of Russia's fledgling banking sector was destroyed, since many banks had substantial dollar borrowings.

The Netherlands had obtained independence from Spain in the late 16th century and by the early 17th century had emerged as a major commercial power, trading with the fledgling English and French colonies in the Lesser Antilles.

For forty-nine years prior to this, however, the city had a fledgling medical school ( or Estudi General, as the universities were known at that time ), founded by King Martin of Aragon, but neither the Consell de Cent ( Barcelona's Council of One Hundred ) nor the city ’ s other leading institutions had given it their official recognition, considering it an intrusion on their respective jurisdictions.

The fledgling Islanders, who were soon nicknamed the " Isles " by the local newspapers, had an extra burden to pay in the form of a $ 4 million territorial fee to the nearby New York Rangers.

George Washington had promoted the building of canals to provide interior transportation for this fledgling nation.

After ten years of ranching and speculation McKinley had earned a fair amount of money and invested his modest fortune in the fledgling stock market.

A depot was built in the fledgling town, which began to experience steady growth By 1913 it had grown to be Scotland County's second-largest town.

In 1891, when it was incorporated, the scattered farms that had originally characterized the landscape were transformed into a fledgling city of 1, 800.

In late 2006, the Wall Street Journal reported that Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of amazon. com, had acquired of land north of Van Horn to house his fledgling space tourism company, Blue Origin.

Hubbard's brother-in-law, Elijah Lindsey, anticipating growth around the new railroad, opened the fledgling community's first general store in 1871, and Lindale had its start ; Lindsey was elected the town's first mayor a year later.

Although 70 percent of the first episode's animation had to be redone, pushing the series premiere back three months, it became one of the first major hit series for the fledgling Fox network.

Rimet was involved in the founding of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( commonly abbreviated to FIFA ) in 1904, and while the fledgling organisation had plans for a global professional tournament, it instead was involved in running an amateur tournament as part of the 1908 Summer Olympics.

By the end of 1998 the government had again cracked down on leading dissidents and those involved in the fledgling CDP.